The Belligerent Bard of Baltimore is now blogging! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Actually, apparently, he's been blogging at davidsimon.com for a while now, based on the back-dated posts. But he chose to go official with it this week. Why? He implies, indirectly, that it's related to the brouhaha caused by a recent interview he did with The New York Times where he appeared to cop to a bit of contempt for bandwagon-hopping The Wire fans. He now says that the interview didn't accurately reflect his sentiments. " . . .I managed to say something that I not only don’t believe, but that is contradicted by every other interview that precedes it," he writes of the interview. This blog, it seems, is Simon's attempt to control his own message.

Anyway, we're thrilled. We always love...

Famous mommy blogger Kelle Hampton paid a surprise visit to a Baltimore book club this past Friday. Hampton—who writes about being a mother to a child with Down syndrome on her blog Enjoying The Small Things and her new book Bloom—was originally going to Skype with the book club, hosted by her friend Lauren Perlin in Mt. Washington. But Perlin decided to surprise her friends by flying Hampton and her two daughters down for the occasion.

The fake-out Skype and eventual surprise were all caught on video and posted on her blog, which you can see below. Perlin, who also has a daughter with Down syndrome, first befriended Hampton when she read about her experience on the blog. Baltimore Bride editor Janelle Diamond attended the event and said that Hampton was nothing but gracious as all the attendees...

Lunchtime customers at Lexington Market might have noticed a curious art project on the street this week. I did. As I approached the market, a guy was setting up an easel and starting to paint. By the time I exited half an hour later, he had finished a crude painting that, in four sections, depicted Einstein, Elvis, the Titanic, and Adam and Eve. A small crowd gathered around, and he preached about “Great Mistakes,” using the painting to illustrate his points.

I initially assumed he’d claim science was misguided and Elvis was satanic, but he, instead, noted that a teacher told the young Einstein he would amount to nothing—which was a mistake. Likewise, a record producer told a young Elvis to give up music and go back to driving trucks—another great mistake. I missed the Titanic part but figured it was a nod to all the 100^th anniversary hoopla and the mistaken claim that the ship was unsinkable. Adam and Eve—you could see this one coming a mile away—committed the “first great mistake.”

After I snapped a photo and went...

Have they been summoned by some sort of . . . bat signal?

In the last two weeks, there have been two incidents of dudes dressed as Batman getting in trouble with the law here in Maryland.

First, hilariously, on March 29th, Lenny B. Robinson, a Baltimore County businessman who has a side gig as Batman, was pulled over as he was driving his Lamborghini "Batmobile" to Georgetown University Hospital. (C'mon, he was speeding to save the children, people! Yeesh!)

Then, on opening day, 26-year-old Mark Harvey stormed the field at Camden Yards dressed as Batman. (The link from Grantland I provided feels legally compelled to say that he apparently...